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air bladder
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun air bladder has 1 sense
- air bladder(n = noun.animal) float, swim bladder - an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy; Array is a kind of sac
CIDE DICTIONARY
air bladder,
- An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus. [1913 Webster]
- A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting. [1913 Webster]
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air bladder
Gaseity
N gaseity, vaporousness, flatulence, flatulency, volatility, aeration, aerification, elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus, cloud, ammonia, ammoniacal gas, volatile alkali, vacuum, partial vacuum, pneumatics, pneumatostatics, aerostatics, aerodynamics, gasmeter, gasometer, air bladder, swimming bladder, sound, (of a fish), gaseous, aeriform, ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable, flatulent.
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